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- inactive, on 11/05/2008, -1/+45And Google lands a knee to the nuts of Yahoo.
- hasslinthehoff, on 11/05/2008, -2/+31Ya-who?
- Bloodwine, on 11/05/2008, -0/+29Ah, Yahoo, how the mighty have fallen. It feels like only yesterday you were blowing millions for product placement in the Inspector Gadget movie.
- inactive, on 11/05/2008, -3/+28Its starting to sound like yahoo can't get their ***** together for anything.
- KenSPT, on 11/05/2008, -7/+26I don't like the music of Rob Thomas.
Sorry, completely off topic, but it had to be said. - uknowwhoibe, on 11/05/2008, -1/+14fail
I've seen most of your comments to be just inaccurate and idiotic.
While you have the freedom to post, freely, I would just say, stop. - InJectaH, on 11/05/2008, -0/+12"Ooops we ***** up again.."
/facepalm - Sansui, on 11/05/2008, -1/+13That's pretty funny considering the CEO of google endorsed Obama.
- sockpuppets, on 11/05/2008, -0/+8Wait a couple of weeks and maybe you can just buy it. Check your cushions for stray coins.
- biffen, on 11/05/2008, -3/+11Good. I want them to have no choice but to sell to Microsoft. Capital gains here I come!
- Troyjinman, on 11/05/2008, -2/+9wow, yahoo's still around?
- Trifold, on 11/05/2008, -3/+10Oh no, what is Google going to do without Yahoo?!
...oh, right. The whole world domination thing. - TimDigg, on 11/05/2008, -0/+6How come noone has mentioned that Google Secured the white space deal with the FCC yesterday...
- zbeast, on 11/05/2008, -0/+5So what the f dudes.. you can't blame Google for this you have to blame the regulators.
you just connected Yahoo life belt to a lead weight.
So what now, your going to push them into a deal with AOL.. Are you nuts.
AOL effectually killed Netscape. If that deal happens... I guarantee that 90% of the staff will quit.
"There will be no more resting and vesting." said by Steve Case and the AOL - Netscape all hands meeting. - onlygeek, on 11/05/2008, -2/+6Ha ha, All Goolge wanted to do was to Avoid Microsoft+Yahoo!
It did that successfully! Cheers - dngermouse, on 11/05/2008, -5/+9google>everyone else
- CoreyTamas, on 11/05/2008, -0/+4Spam.
- PueSi, on 11/05/2008, -3/+6WHERE'S YOUR GOD NOW YAHOO!?
- taiwanniggadu, on 11/05/2008, -1/+3geez i havent logged into my yahoo email account in like 5 years
- harrisbradley, on 11/06/2008, -0/+2I see what yahoo did there.
- Chuck1988, on 11/05/2008, -1/+3It's just like prison.
Yahoo! enters prison, Microsoft makes Yahoo! offer of protection, Yahoo! denies Microsoft, Yahoo! acts like bitch in the yard, Tries to make deal with Google, "Google lands a knee to the nuts of Yahoo!", Yahoo! crawls back to Microsoft and becomes Micro's bitch.
At least they don't have to worry bout dropping the soap anymore. - fuzzynyanko, on 11/05/2008, -0/+2Though Google has some financial backing from Microsoft
- HonoredMule, on 11/05/2008, -0/+2Yup, totally fucied.
- theadvinci, on 11/16/2008, -0/+12 of the biggest competitors sharing revenue is a little strange... don't you think?
- Sugaruss, on 11/05/2008, -0/+1I disagree with the statement that a merger between the two companies would foster competition. Yes, there would be movement towards any market that is profitable, but the economies of scale on the internet are infinite which would allow Google to eventually obtain a monopoly position in the market. Though I agree with you that the government too often interferes in the economy and our lives, this moves was not only clear cut, to me, but inevitable from the beginning.
Did anyone not see this coming? Yahoo put the entire company on the line, they made a deal with the devil, and now they've gotten burned. Google has been able to analyze Yahoo's technology and business model from the inside out, and they don't like what they've seen. Google will now be in a position to drive Yahoo out of the market, it's just business.
I don't think Yahoo will be able to survive this without taking drastic steps, including putting themselves up to the highest bidder at a substantially reduced price, or by jumping into a merger that will probably see them as the number two, further devaluing the company into only a brand name. - Stevethegreat, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1Yahoo, most possible will go out of business if things continue as they're now, and that would be a worst disaster for its customers (remember Yahoo mail?) than if it would be bought by a competitor.
However Goggle's monopoly is NOT a problem as they sell a product with no price, thus they can't be involved in price gouging, as of yet. By the time that their monopoly would become a problem and -already- most of the people would start seeing Goggle's tactics as disagreeable (which inevitable would happen to a Monopoly) then -in a free market- BY DEFINITION a competition will arise and that's because of the people not having in mind that the federal government would "clear up the place" for them they would thoughtfully go to the competition's offering as it would meet their needs better. Google would either have to back down or lose a big market's segment.
For example we were all afraid of MS's monopoly (another governmental fort) and they're already starting to lose it's power by Google's kind of cloud computing and Linux's netbooks, not to speak about the recent reprisal of Macintosh computers. ALL market forces, NONE of them thought by the federal government as a plan against Microsoft's monopoly. In Biology the say goes "remember; evolution is smarter than you", the same can be said about the economy "the market is smarter than you" and no kind of government intervention can change that, EXACTLY because the government's officials are dumb as per virtue of them being humans... - Sugaruss, on 11/05/2008, -0/+1As a corollary to this point, I predict that Yahoo will move to a more IP position, licensing their brand name to other companies like they have done with Google but with more control - it's all they have left. I expect a Blackberry type Yahoo phone, a move that could attract Microsoft back.
I am dubious about an AoL/Yahoo deal because the two companies are identical: both are web portals and content hosts, and both are supported by a user base tied closely to the messaging services provided. Neither company has anything to offer the other that can't be, or isn't already, being duplicated by the other. Yahoo/Motorola or Yahoo/Nokia on the other hand could be interesting. - Spankypoo, on 11/05/2008, -0/+1Trust me, they can't.
- LibertyKnight, on 11/09/2008, -0/+0Sounds like they would have been a juggernaut.
- inactive, on 11/05/2008, -4/+4As a Yahoo shareholder, I pray that Microsoft makes another bid for Yahoo. I think they will.
- LibertyKnight, on 11/09/2008, -0/+0Sounds like they would have been a juggernaut.
- inactive, on 11/05/2008, -4/+4i supported yahoo's decision to not merge with microsoft, oops my bad, this is exactly why i'm not a financial advisor
- SimpleAlex, on 12/31/2008, -0/+0yeah a little strange I agree
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- inactive, on 11/06/2008, -0/+0The Justice Department shouldn't have threatend legal action. If Google raised the cost of its PPC, people wouldn't go to Yahoo, they'd decrease their Yahoo budget! They aren't preserving competition. http://jdnweb.net/?p=55
- BowZzer, on 11/05/2008, -3/+2yahoo is fuuuuuuuuuukd
- roho76, on 11/05/2008, -3/+1Yahoo, manufacturer of Cooties.
- ch40sBr1ng3r, on 11/05/2008, -3/+1That's ridiculous. If yahoo wanted to sell Google ads on their pages, why not? even if they DO have a combined 80% share of the search market, that's like telling someone what they can/cannot do with their site. Freedom of speech, freedom of press. Its funny that Microsoft was against the deal because they didn't want a Yahoo/Google partner ship after they offered Yahoo that proposal. Seems to me than when MS sees someone else in the top of something they want they will try to do anything to take them down. Wasn't MS sued for having a monopoly a while ago? and now they are complaining that if these two companies joined it would monopolize the search market? hypocritical don't you think?
- sadilak, on 11/05/2008, -2/+0Yahoo is not meant to be saved. They had time to innovate or atleast copy , but did neither. I dont think anyone judiciously types search.yahoo.com for web based searching. I Hope steve ballmer is smart enough to avoid any kind of deal with Yahoo.
Ideally, I would expect Yahoo to declare Bankruptcy , thereby screwing all their creditors and coming back to life a.k.a K Mart. - Stevethegreat, on 11/05/2008, -5/+2If you look at world history, every SINGLE monopoly from Ancient Rome to this day was created either by the government itself or government intervention. I find it a bit hypocritical for the government creating a body which would supposedly save us from its own corruption while the solution is in fact much simpler. If at last people would get that separation of the economy and the state is AS important or maybe even MORE important than the separation of the church and the state, only then the most significant part of corruption would end and Monopolies would ONLY survive (without being actively hostile to human rights, in which case they would be prosecuted by the state) if they would actually had none of the downsides of a monopoly.
I don't much care for Google and/or Yahoo, but in a free economy a more able competition to Google would arise BY DEFINITION, thus I find it quite repulsive when I hear from government bodies to talk about boosting the competition (and hence innovation), while with the other hand they're actually killing the competition. - breanna5, on 11/05/2008, -3/+0I think it might make sense for Apple to buy Yahoo! AOL isn't in good shape right now, but Apple could probably pull it off. Of course, I don't think it is the end of the world if Microsoft buys it.
- jamesduh, on 11/05/2008, -5/+1What's this Yahoo, you guys are talking about?
- bhp0528, on 11/05/2008, -6/+1More like yaWHO?
- unct, on 11/05/2008, -8/+1Yahoo is totally fuc*ed now. Should have listened to Icahn and gone with Microsoft. No Microsoft, no google, Apple is their only saving grace left.
- inactive, on 11/05/2008, -27/+3of course they have. they've crunched the numbers and realized under bHUSSEINo's oppresive tax plan they can't afford to innovate anymore.
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